Work of Chinese Government Bureau Told to Rotary Club members, visiting Rotarians, and|to make the Paten oe iecuit There was a good attendance cf}has found it imperatively necessar
guests at Thursday's tiffin meeting possible. To carry out his first obof the Rotary Club held at the Hotel Metropole. Mr, Julean Arnhold, American Trade Commissioner, introduced the guest of honour and speaker of the day, Mr. C, T. Liang, of the Bureau of Trademarks, and announced that he would take as his subject the "Registration of Trade Mark" Mr. A. H. Gordon gave a report on the establishment of the new Rotary Club at Tsingtao and Mr. Vinson Lee reported on arrangements to have an exchange of meetings with Manila broadcast by radio to- each other.
Mr. C. T. Liang said that it was unnecessary to emphasise the vital importance of the Chinese Trade Mark Bureau to the industrial and commercial} interests of both Chinese and foreigners in China. For this reason the Bureau had been working with extreme care since its creation, At present it is composed of five divisions—division of Preliminary Examination, division of Publication, division of Protests, Registration division and division of Genera] Affairs. Formerly it had a bigger staff and budget than at present, but these had once again been reduced. "Working under these difficulties our present Director, Mr. Jolsen Ho, "has not allowed himself to be discouraged since he assumed his duties in January last," said Mr. Liang. On the one hand he is oblived to maintain. the standing of the Bureau, whilst on the other he advanced.training on seaplanes and flying boats:
He lives at Warnemunde with ject, he has improved the Bureau and inspired his subordinates to work double capacity. Secondly he arranged to have the Bureau removed from Nanking to Shanghai, the most important industrial and commercial centre of China, and since its transfer it has been able to function more effectively. In Shanghai the work has continually increased, owing to the constant increase of applications for registration of Trade Marks. The work of the Information Bureau, installed by our Director for the convenience of the public is the heaviest.
"The removal of the Bureau has been helpful only to the merchants in Shanghai, but as the majority of the Trade Mark registration applications are from Shanghai, it is natural that the head office should be here. Furthermore, our Director knew quite well that the protection of trade marks has not been fully appreciated -by Chinese merchants and manufacturers in less important centres, nor the facilities of the Bureau availed of. Hence he established four branch offices at Tientsin, Hankow, Tsingtao and Canton. The result of this scheme has been} very satisfactory.
"In the main office here, each|_ division is headed by a chief. When an application for registration of 2 Trade Mark is filed, it goes first to the division of. Preliminary FExamination to see if all requirements of law are met. After these are satisfied, it then goes to the Reistration Division. For registra-trademarks are classified under 70 main groups, which are sub-
8.15. Weather conditions were perfect for -his flight, there being searcely any wind and a good visibility. That such conditions pre-! ~vailed along the coast is evidenced _by the fact that the machine made the trip in seven and a quarter self appointed director of the government-subsidized Fliegerschule at Warnemtinde, on the Baltic, sunk his capital into it, won such fame for it that pilots of other European countries came for his wife Elsner, and three children, Marie Louise, 12, Hans Albert, 10, Hans Joachim, 8. When badgered by newsmen after her husband's flights, Frau von Gronau had her telephe-e disconnected. divided into more than 200 classes. At present an application for registration can be examined and approved within one or two weeks. If the Bureau finds the application is in order, it will approve the appication and publish the trademark in
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